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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hummin buy for Seldon?
(a) Pens.
(b) Clothes.
(c) CDs.
(d) Cigarettes.

2. What is Dora's specialty?
(a) Bipolar disorder.
(b) The rise of the Royal Trantor.
(c) 1960s popular culture.
(d) The fall of the Galactic Empire.

3. What does Dora insist Seldon call her?
(a) Red.
(b) Miss Venabili.
(c) Madame.
(d) Dora.

4. What does Seldon say must underlie all things?
(a) Error.
(b) Order.
(c) Truth.
(d) Sincerity.

5. What kind of war does Hummin fear?
(a) Universal war.
(b) World war.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Cold war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seldon argue Venabili out of doing?

2. What is the name of the pilot?

3. What does Trantor have over 800 of?

4. What is Hummin's job?

5. Who does Hummin blame for the crisis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What must one understand for psychohistory to be successful?

2. Why does Hummin tell Seldon not to show any distaste for Trantorian food?

3. Why does Hummin think Leggen is responsible for Seldon's disappearance?

4. Why does Venabili think the jet must have been a hallucination?

5. How do Hummin's motives for wanting use of Seldon's predictive powers differ from the Emperor's?

6. What amazes Seldon about the dainties?

7. Why does Raindrop find it insulting that Seldon thinks her culture is religious?

8. Why does Trantor present a problem to meteorologists?

9. Describe how Venabili looks?

10. How do Venabili, Leggen and Benastra save Seldon?

(see the answer keys)

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